Archive | September, 2009

07 September 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Interference — penalty!

The new project that wants to be written is not being very polite to the current project. First it was nudging, now it’s elbowing the current project, trying to muscle it out of the way. But the more static it causes, the harder it is to stay focused on the current project. I did think [...]

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04 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Save the Dragons!

South African writer Dave Freer is leaving South Africa for Australia. But he has run into a snag — how to pay for the passage and quarantine of his dogs and cats. The money budgeted has run into a shortfall due to exchange rates. Well, he’s a storyteller, so this is how: SAVE THE DRAGONS! [...]

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01 September 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Riding lessons — DUMPED

Rode Chocolate the mare again, and this time we did canter and sure enough, she dumped me. We were in the small round pen, and I had her head up, and we were doing fine, and then all of a sudden her head disappeared and over I went. The instructor, Laurel, said I was doing [...]

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